a few states don't collect sales tax. it means that everybody else in the country is subsidizing their employers. when you say it's bad for small business, i don't understand why. it's the small brick and mortar companies that are being hurt by the current law and, therefore, we're losing employment in states among small retail outlets not on the internet because we're subsidizing thee other states who don't collect the sales tax. >> senator ayotte, your response. >> my response is this is a big money grab from the states. can you imagine requiring these online businesses to collect for almost 9,600 tax jurisdictions throughout the country. talk about burdens on businesses. by the way, this is big retailers and business lining up for smaller online businesses to have to do their tax collection for states. it is so wrong. actually the last thing we should do and a precursor to other things they will try to grab using the internet including taxing the ber net in my view. >> i wasn't for if sales tax until i saw art laffer o